Leona with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Leona and Nunu & Willump
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Leona Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Leona with Nunu & Willump
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Understand How Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Leona Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Leona in LoL
The Leona Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nunu & Willump helps Leona perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Nunu & Willump, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Nunu & Willump supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nunu & Willump. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Leona in teamfights.
Synergies between Leona and Nunu & Willump
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Is Leona better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no perfect ally for Leona that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, Nunu & Willump is a not very good ally for Leona. By being on the same team as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -2.8% to 49.4%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Leona and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nunu & Willump comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by grouping Leona and Nunu & Willump together, you may not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nunu & Willump ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Leona in order to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Leona and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with many other typical builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 49.4% helping carry Nunu & Willump with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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